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Monday the court will decide if the proposal of the Scop (the only one reached) allows to maintain SeaFrance while still alive
DFDS and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs have renounced to introduce an offered new
December 13, 2011
Within the final deadline yesterday the commercial court of Paris has received only an offer for the acquisition of the company of SeaFrance navigation, that he is placed in judicial liquidation 16th November with the possibility to continue the operating activity until next 28 January ( of the 16, 28 and 29 November 2011). It is that of the society participatory cooperative and (Scop) constituted by the dependent of the company, than but it still lacks the demand cover financial institution. The shipowning groups DFDS and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA), than to half year had advanced an offer in order to buy SeaFrance that successively frozen and is then confirmed ( on 26 July and 16 November 2011), to little hours from the expiration of the terms they have instead communicated their intention not to deposit some proposed new.
According to Didier Cappelle, the general secretary of the CFDT section Maritime North, the union that the initiative of constitution of the Scop, the problem of the financing of the project of the society total participatory cooperative and not sussisterebbe has promoted being assured the economic participation for 15 million euros by the local institutions. A figure that, however, would be insufficient in order to guarantee the starting phase of prosecuzione of the activity of SeaFrance, that at least 25 million euros would demand resources in order.
Communicating their renunciation to introduce an offered new DFDS and LDA they have inculpated union CFDT to have rejected every proposed: "after the decision of the court to liquidate the SeaFrance society and to fix on 12 December the last date for the warehouse of the offered new - they have explained the two companies - DFDS and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs have completed important steps ahead with the majority of the parts interested to the aim to reach to an offered new. The priority - they have specified - was that to answer to express the social worries and to increase the ricompresi dependent number in the offer. Unfortunately, in the course of this phase - they have emphasized DFDS and LDA - it has not been possible to meet the union of majority of the SeaFrance society that has always systematically declined our proposals of encounter and it has newly made it in the last days. Consequently, recognizing the importance to maintain and stable social relations with all the unions constructive that represent the dependent of SeaFrance, DFDS and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs they have decided not to introduce an offered new".
"Absolutely we have displeased for this decision - they have concluded the two shipowning companies - above all because the industrial project of alliance between the groups DFDS and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs remains intact. In reality we consider that this partnership is in a privileged position in order to constitute an atmosphere of long-lasting job, for the majority of the current dependent of SeaFrance, included the employment of ships under French flag favorable and stable. We will continue to examine the situation and to estimate all the future opportunities that will be able to be introduced for our joint venture".
With the renunciation of DFDS and LDA they remain two alternatives: the court will estimate the offer of the Scop and the verdict of acceptance of the proposal or of confirmation of the liquidation of the company with the immediate cessation of the activity is attended for next monday.
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